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As a mediocre playing by ear guitarist, I learned standard notation when I started playing mandolin.
I understand the music better in notation, but find that tab is very useful for finger...

Music theory isn't a set of rules you follow to make music, it's a description of the music, and a language for describing music. The theory comes from the music, not the other way round.

OK, dots means standard notation. It's a really good thing to learn to read standard notation. I learned it when I took classical guitar lessons. There are several major advantages over tablature. It...

I learned to read tab when I started to play mandolin about 10 years ago, but I learned to read notation when I was 8, which is a very long time ago. And I've learned tunes by ear as well. But now...

That depends on how you were taught to read standard notation...which in the Italian tradition was a way to sing before you were ever given an instrument.

So I disagree, learning to sight-sing...

Greeting all! Weber instruments were built in Montana from its start in 1997 to 2012 and then in Bend Oregon from 2012 to present. No imports were ever created under the Weber name. Really...

Weber mandolins have only been produced in the US.
Flatiron and Breedlove mandolins have been produced in both the US and overseas.
Bruce Weber, Steve Carlson, and Kim Breedlove have founded their...

If it was made in Oregon it was after the Two Old Hippies buy out. It might have been before Bruce left the company.
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It depends on who made the Webers. Not who signed the label: who made the instrument. Some were made by companies that bought the rights to the Weber name.

I have several Webers. Most were made...

I have liked the Collingses and Northfields I've played but I certainly wouldn't buy one blind if I loved my current instrument.

I'd say the time to upgrade is when you:
1. Play an instrument and...

- with earphones to silently practise
- with sunglasses to do the ZZ Top thing matching my beard
- combination of both outdoors

I own two pre-WWII Gibson instruments.
With the way the current Gibson company is being run, I wouldn't bother looking at any new Gibson products.
There are plenty of other companies and small...

She's amazing and so is her band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHoixofvso

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I didn’t exactly miss it Bill, after I posted that comment, I realized that you had qualified what you said and that my comment wasn’t really fair. No offense, the truth is that I don’t think it’s a...

The big issues with your grandpa's mandolin would be condition, particularly neck action.

I'm one of the folks that plays bowlbacks regularly, mostly Italian music, choro, Klezmer, and classical....

Congratulations Bill, my friend from Ohio showed me pictures of the Stiver and promised to bring it to the next jam. He's a monster on the banjo!

Pittsburgh Bill -- My surgery sounds quite different from finger joint replacement. A bone is removed and eliminates the pain from the arthritis. I looked up finger joint replacement and it looks...

Also, I’ll add that I never had an unhappy buyer … but if I had, I would have accepted a return. In fact, I’d accept one back today if it were in the same condition. They can’t be replaced for what I...

Why is it that those folks that are trying to sell a mandolin, and producing a video, only play hot licks and chords. I would like to hear the individual strings one at a time. It would only take a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_aqhiV2V8w

Depends. Is it a Rogue or a Gilchrist?

I wouldn't want the Mando to sleep any colder than me. Will it get lonely and perhaps go with a passing stranger? I've heard they sometimes do that.

The classifieds here on the Cafe.

Enjoy!

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDEMQZw314
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Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nya2-HSWvJA
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Does anyone else have trouble with mp3 links like this? When I click one, it prompts me to download an html page, and has always done, on many devices.

IMHO, it is always best to place an mp3 link...

It's been a while since my last Beatles arrangement. Here's what I came up with the other day for their song "In My Life."

I did all the past Beatles arrangements on mandola, but for some reason...